There'll be a backlash against Hollywood like nobody's ever seen if the Academy nominates FAHRENHEIT 9/11 for best pic and not THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Mind you, I don't think that will happen (I think both films will be snubbed), but I can see it as a least a possibility if the wheels continue to come off the Kerry campaign, Bush wins by a landslide, and Hollywood enters a collective huff.
But the last doc to campaign actively for a Best Picture nomination was HOOP DREAMS, and it wound up being shut out in both categories (its only nomination was Best Editing). And to be perfectly honest, HOOP DREAMS was a much-more *loved* movie, at least among media buzzmakers and critics, than FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (which is why I can only see Moore getting a nod as an act of anti-Bush pique in the wake of "Four More Years). On principle I haven't seen Moore's movie, but it's hard to imagine it can hold a candle to HOOP DREAMS.
The scariest part of this article got squeezed in at the very end:
Moore also hinted in a recent interview in Rolling Stone he would like the movie to play on television before the presidential election. According to the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, playing on TV would invalidate its contention in the documentary category, but not for best picture. With the movie coming out on DVD Oct. 5, it's not clear whether the TV deal would happen.
Imagine the spread of this destructive propoganda if it hits the TV. How many more people will catch the TV version who didn't scrounge up a few bucks and hours to go to the theater? A lot, I fear. I know there are plenty of resources that rebut lots of what he suggests in the movie, but how many people out there will see the movie without tracking down the rebuttals...
He's the guy who made the movie "Super Size Me," right?
I wonder if they'll give it to them, just to pull the administration's collective nose.
Give it to him, of course is what I meant.
There'll be a backlash against Hollywood like nobody's ever seen if the Academy nominates FAHRENHEIT 9/11 for best pic and not THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Mind you, I don't think that will happen (I think both films will be snubbed), but I can see it as a least a possibility if the wheels continue to come off the Kerry campaign, Bush wins by a landslide, and Hollywood enters a collective huff.
But the last doc to campaign actively for a Best Picture nomination was HOOP DREAMS, and it wound up being shut out in both categories (its only nomination was Best Editing). And to be perfectly honest, HOOP DREAMS was a much-more *loved* movie, at least among media buzzmakers and critics, than FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (which is why I can only see Moore getting a nod as an act of anti-Bush pique in the wake of "Four More Years). On principle I haven't seen Moore's movie, but it's hard to imagine it can hold a candle to HOOP DREAMS.
The scariest part of this article got squeezed in at the very end:
Moore also hinted in a recent interview in Rolling Stone he would like the movie to play on television before the presidential election. According to the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, playing on TV would invalidate its contention in the documentary category, but not for best picture. With the movie coming out on DVD Oct. 5, it's not clear whether the TV deal would happen.
Imagine the spread of this destructive propoganda if it hits the TV. How many more people will catch the TV version who didn't scrounge up a few bucks and hours to go to the theater? A lot, I fear. I know there are plenty of resources that rebut lots of what he suggests in the movie, but how many people out there will see the movie without tracking down the rebuttals...